Pierce Brosnan's daughter Charlotte, 41, dies of ovarian cancer

Pierce Brosnan's daughter Charlotte has died of ovarian cancer, the same disease that took her mother, Cassandra Harris, in 1991. She was 41.

"On June 28 at 2 p.m. my darling daughter Charlotte Emily passed on to eternal life, having succumbed to ovarian cancer," Brosnan, 60, said in a statement to People. She was surrounded by her husband, her two children and her two brothers.

Brosnan talked to the Daily Mirror about his 2012 film, "Love Is All You Need," earlier this year. It's about a widower who falls in love with a hairdresser struggling with cancer, and he said his personal experience fueled his performance.

"I went through it all, very publicly,” Brosnan said of his wife Cassandra's death. "Such things draw a mark across your heart and it’s always a part of your life.

"To watch someone you love have their life eaten away — bit by bit, by this insidious and horrid disease — becomes an indelible part of your psyche."

Charlotte is survived by her husband, Alex Smith, and her children, Isabella, 15, and Lucas, 8.

[For the record, 12:15 July 2: This post originally said Brosnan was in two James Bond films. In fact, he played the character four times.]